Annette Danto

Annette Danto has extensive credits in film/television production, documentary and sound recording, including BBC, Channel Four, NHK, Canal Plus, NBC, HBO and Showtime. Danto has directed fiction and documentary films for nonprofit organizations, including UNIFEM, Pathfinder International and Ted Turner Foundation. Her films are distributed internationally through Forwardintime.com and are in the permanent collections of leading universities and libraries. Recent documentaries include Reflections on Media Ethics (2011), Gandhi's Wheel (2010) and The Never Ending Path (2005). She is a twice awarded Fulbright Scholar in Filmmaking (2002, 2004), a twice awarded Tow Faculty Fellow (2004, 2008), and a recipient of grants from international media organizations such as the Eastman Foundation and the Ted Turner Foundation. Her work has exhibited in international and national film festivals, television and conferences.

Education:

M.F.A., New York University - Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Program in Filmmaking - 1988 (Film & Television Production)

M.S., Columbia University - 1982

B.A. (magna cum laude), McGill University - 1980

Areas of Expertise:

Filmmaker and educator with specialization in film and television production, documentary production and sound recording. Founder of Brooklyn College Study Abroad India, a documentary production program based in South India. The program is offered every January: http://studyabroad.brooklyn.cuny.edu/india/Welcome.html.

Books and Publications

Think/Point/Shoot: Media Ethics from Development to Distribution. United Kingdom: Focal Press, Taylor & Francis. Undergraduate textbook bridging theory and practice on ethical fundamentals for all stages of media creation, development, production and distribution. (Books and Publications: Book) 2014

Screening of and guest lecture on Reflections on Media Ethics. Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media (IIJNM), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Program sponsored by the U.S. Consulate Chennai and IIJNM. 2014

Screening of and guest lecture on Reflections on Media Ethics. Suchitra Film and Drama Academy, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. 2014

Screening of and interactive workshop on Reflections on Media Ethics. Asian College of Journalism, LVP Prasad Academy, M.O.P. Vaishnav Women's College, University of Madras, India. 2014

Director, cinematographer and sound recordist, Aboriginal Mental Health In Northern Ontario (documentary). Produced by the University of Guelph-Humber College, Toronto. Screened at the 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Jan. 5 and 7. 2013

Reflections on Media Ethics. National and international distribution through Forwardintime.com. 2011

Reflections on Media Ethics (TRT: 25 minutes). National and international distribution through Forward In Time.com, www.mediaethicstoday.com. 2011

Shanti's Story (TRT: 30 minutes). Fiction film produced and distributed by Pathfinder International on prenatal care and unsafe abortion in India's rural regions. 2005

The Never Ending Path (TRT: 35 minutes). Documentary portraits of five families living in the Dindigul District of rural Tamil Nadu. In the permanent collections of more than 43 universities in the United States and abroad. Distributed by Forward In Time and Parallel Films. info@ForwardInTime.com. 2005

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Documentary and Journalism: Agency and Agenda" panel. School of Journalism and Media, University of Madras. Tamil Nadu, India. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014

"Toward an Ethical Theory of Documentary Production Pedagogy." Codes and Modes: The Character of Documentary Culture moderator and panelist. Hunter College (CUNY). New York, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

Co-chair, Global Media Ethics: Issues of Representation, an interdisciplinary conference co-sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Brooklyn College, New York Women in Film and Television, and the Loreen Arbus Foundation. March 15-16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013